Improvement in vehicle-springs



Patented Nov. 2, 1875.

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X3 Q 0M By Gib/ N FEIERS PHOTO LITHQGRAPHER WASHING'TO D C B. J. COREY & E. NEFF.

VEHICLE-SPRING T/VITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BARTEEY J. COREY AND ELIJAH NEFF, OF ROCHESTER, INDIANA.

IMPROVEME NT I'N VEHlCLE-SPRlNGS- Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,524, dated November 2, 1875; application filed September 14, 1875.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that we, BARNEY J. COREY and ELIJAH NEFF, of Rochester, in the county of Fulton and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Equalizers for Springs to Vehicles; and do and lower leaves of the spring sufficiently to 5 endanger the breaking or straining of same,

as will be hereinafter more particularly set forth.

view with one spring cut in two, and Fig. 2 represents a perspective.

In the drawings, A represents the bottom leaf, and B the upper or top leaf, of an elliptic spring, which is secured to the axle of a vehicle in any of the well-known and usual ways. 0 represents a bow, which connects the two top leaves of two. opposite springs together. D represents a metallic bar, which lies parallel with the axle and just above it;

The ends of this bar have their bearings in suitable eyes or loops on the bottom leaves of the springs, at their centers. The bar 1) is provided, at or near each end, with two arms,

a and e, which extend out from it on different sides. The arm is so curved that its end will rest, when desirable, upon the lower leaves of the springs. The arm a is connected, by means of a connecting-rod, d, to an arm, as, which is secured to the leaves of the upper portion of the springs. Y

By this arrangement, it will be seen that when the upper leaves of the springs separate a certain distance from the lower leaves, the

. rod (1, connected to arm w,-causes the shaft or bar D- to partially revolve until the arm 6 strikes the leaf A, thus preventing further separation, as, also, preventing the breaking or straining of the spring. As springs of vehicles almost invariably break by the upward strain of their leaves, it will be per- 1 'ceived that this device will prevent it.

In the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a front I Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The bar I), with its arms a and e, the conmeeting-rod d, and arm 00, in combination with the upper and lower lea es of a spring for vehicles, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony'that we claim the foregoing we have hereunto set our hands this 11th day I of August, 1875.

BARNEY J. COREY.

ELIJAH NEFF.

Witnesses:

JACOB Gnnson, J. P. NELLAN. 

